41 Loving v. Virginia: An Interdisciplinary Exploration of the Criminalization of Love and Marriage

HUM 300: Loving v. Virginia: An Interdisciplinary Exploration of the Criminalization of Love and Marriage

HUM 300 Faculty

Course Description
The course will examine how the struggles over the relationship between intimacy, race, and the law have shaped society and culture in the United States, focusing on Virginia’s 1924 criminalization of interracial marriage, the overturning of this law by the 1967 Supreme Court case Loving v. Virginia, and the resonance of this case in ongoing debates about racial equity. Students will learn the social, economic, and historical contexts surrounding the law’s regulation of marriage and other forms of intimacy.

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